pacomotorstuff
Coast to Coast
Hi all,
Posted something similar on the VRRA website but seeing as a lot of you don't go there, well, here ya go...
Was ****ing around with one of my 175 Honda twins today, checking the ignition and the advance, blah blah blah.
Anyway, my understanding of the ignition advance on the bike is that it is retarded to help starting and then goes to full advance as the revs go up.
The bike pulls better through the gears than any 175 I remember from the '60's, but I'm always looking for that little bit more and wondered if I should try to get full ignition advance in as soon as I can - maybe pull off one of the advance springs or something? BTW, the advance unit is working per Honda - not sticking at all.
No indication of the engine backfiring or anything like that - when the bike is warm, it starts halfway through the first kick.
I'm also running a high output coil with the plug gap at .035, still using points, don't know if either have any bearing or not.
This topic is probably applicable to a lot of the early bikes we work on and maybe some newer ones as well.
Thoughts please?
Pat
Posted something similar on the VRRA website but seeing as a lot of you don't go there, well, here ya go...
Was ****ing around with one of my 175 Honda twins today, checking the ignition and the advance, blah blah blah.
Anyway, my understanding of the ignition advance on the bike is that it is retarded to help starting and then goes to full advance as the revs go up.
The bike pulls better through the gears than any 175 I remember from the '60's, but I'm always looking for that little bit more and wondered if I should try to get full ignition advance in as soon as I can - maybe pull off one of the advance springs or something? BTW, the advance unit is working per Honda - not sticking at all.
No indication of the engine backfiring or anything like that - when the bike is warm, it starts halfway through the first kick.
I'm also running a high output coil with the plug gap at .035, still using points, don't know if either have any bearing or not.
This topic is probably applicable to a lot of the early bikes we work on and maybe some newer ones as well.
Thoughts please?
Pat